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pith:2021:M53PNWTGQFMF3KX26TKJ6QGSPZ

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How many degrees of freedom do we need to train deep networks: a loss landscape perspective

Brett W. Larsen, Nic Becker, Stanislav Fort, Surya Ganguli

arxiv:2107.05802 v2 · 2021-07-13 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-07-05T03:53:48.387489Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

6776f6da6681585daafaf4d49f40d27e7f3afa93689bbad05fbd4e7b181127e2

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arxiv: 2107.05802 · arxiv_version: 2107.05802v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2107.05802 · pith_short_12: M53PNWTGQFMF · pith_short_16: M53PNWTGQFMF3KX2 · pith_short_8: M53PNWTG

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/M53PNWTGQFMF3KX26TKJ6QGSPZ \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 6776f6da6681585daafaf4d49f40d27e7f3afa93689bbad05fbd4e7b181127e2

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2021-07-13T01:29:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6bfa69cd1065fe06036b84438f389e409f7079b095d6f6f50fea77d70b872fe4"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}